Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 23, section 4

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[4] Brutus smiled and said:

But I, certainly, have no mind to address Porcia in the words of Hector, ‘Ply loom and distaff and give orders to thy maids,’
¹ for though her body is not strong enough to perform such heroic tasks as men do, still, in spirit she is valiant in defence of her country, just as we are.

This story is told by Porcia's son, Bibulus.²

1 Iliad, vi. 429 f.; 491.

2 Cf. chapter xiii. 2.

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. 6.

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